by Jon Lackman | 27 January 2009 | Uncategorized
According to Michele D. Marincola, interim director of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts:
It is with real sadness that I report the death of Olga Raggio, former Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Adjunct Professor at the IFA from 1965-1998. Miss Raggio passed away on Saturday, January 24th. She was 82.
Miss Raggio came to the US in 1950 from Rome, and joined the staff of the Metropolitan Museum, where she remained her entire professional career. Her expertise was in European sculpture from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. She was a valued teacher and mentor to a number of students at the Institute, many of whom now hold leading positions in the museum world and academia.
There will be a funeral mass for Miss Raggio on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 10 A.M. at Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Church in Pleasantville, NY.
Raggio co-wrote the two-volume The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation, which won the 2001 Salimbeni Prize for Art History and Critics (awarded to books on Italian topics).
